 | William Selwyn - Civil procedure - 1820 - 830 pages
...is to be observed, however, that there is a distinction between a factor and a broker. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a...name, without disclosing that of his principal ; the merchant therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession... | |
 | John Eykyn Hovenden - Equity pleading and procedure - 1825 - 656 pages
...goods are consigned for * employ' sale, by a merchant residing abroad or at a distance, and the factor usually sells in his own name, without disclosing that of his principal; who, with full knowledge of this usage, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods. But a broker... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Commercial law - 1831 - 354 pages
...is to be observed, however, that there is a distinction between a factor and a broker. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a...name, without disclosing that of his principal ; the merchant, therefore, with full knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - Law - 1831 - 590 pages
...& Aid. 137. t A factor is a party to whom goods are consigned for sale by a merchant or other pnrly residing abroad, or at a distance from the place of sale, and he usually sells ihe goods in his own name. Factors are either foreign or home factors. A foreign factor is a persun... | |
 | Thomas Charles Morton - Vendors and purchasers - 1836 - 526 pages
...Abbott, C. .1 ., said, " the distinction between a broker and a factor is not merely nominal. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a...principal ; the latter, therefore, with full knowledge of those circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods, and gives him authority to... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1124 pages
...1849. and a factor is not merely nominal, for they differ in many important particulars. A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a...that of his principal; the latter, therefore, with fufl knowledge of these circumstances, trusts him with the actual possession of the goods, and gives... | |
 | William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...nominal, for they differ in many important particulars. A factor is a person to whom goods are conveyed for sale by a merchant residing abroad, or at a distance...principal : the latter therefore, with full knowledge of those *circumstances, trusts him with the [*333] actual possession of the goods, and gives him au(a)... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Contracts - 1847 - 536 pages
...principal. " A factor is generally the correspondent of a foreign house, or of a merchant or manufacturer at a distance from the place of sale ; and he usually...own name, without disclosing that of his principal, and has an implied authority so to do. He receives consignments on the one hand, and makes sales and... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Fire insurance - 1855 - 692 pages
...is an agent to whom goods are consigned or delivered for sale, by or for a merchant, or other person residing abroad, or at a distance from the place of sale, and who, in return for his trouble, receives a compensation, commonly called factorage or commission.1... | |
 | District courts - 1859 - 256 pages
...distinguished from an agent. A factor is generally the correspondent of a foreign house, or of a merchant at a distance from the place of sale, and he usually...own name, without disclosing that of his principal, and has an implied authority to do so. Justice Story, in his excellent Commentaries on Agency (sect.... | |
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A factor is a person to whom goods are consigned for sale by a merchant residing abroad, or at a distance from the place of sale, and he usually sells in his own name... 
